The Comedy Highlights of Twitter on the Super Bowl Blackout

More and more people watch live events such as the Superbowl with a second screen such as a smartphone or an iPad in order to discuss the happenings with their digitally connected friends. We saw this emerge at the London Olympics, when the internet mocked Paul McCartney’s lack of a singing voice in unison, and last night’s Superbowl blackout was another perfect occasion for the Twitter comedians and commentators to chime in. Here’s a few of our favourites:

And the best marketing of the event was not the television commercials, but in fact whoever was running the Oreos twitter feed that posted this that was retweeted almost 15,000 times: